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Subject(s)

• Humanism—Italy [Browse]
• Renaissance—Italy [Browse]
• Republicanism—Italy—History [Browse]
• Italy—Politics and government—1268-1559 [Browse]

Editor

• Hankins, James [Browse]

Series

• Ideas in context ; 57. [More in this series]
• Ideas in context ; 57 [More in this series]

Summary note

Civic humanism has been one of the most influential of all concepts in the history of ideas. In this volume, an eminent team of political theorists and historians of ideas have been brought together to reassess the impact on the subject of the pioneering work of Hans Baron (1966) and J. G. A. Pocock (1975), creating a fresh intellectual landscape in which Renaissance civic humanism can be discussed. Drawing on a wide range of political and historical texts, this book evaluates civic humanism in the light of the emergence of oligarchy, imperialism, patronage politics and the Medici ascendency in Florence in the 14th to 16th centuries. It proposes new understandings of the evolution of important republican concepts such as liberty, the rule of law, virtue, and the common good. This thought-provoking collection represents a significant contribution to the study of republican political ideology in the Renaissance and modern periods.

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Contents

• Introduction / James Hankins
• The Republican Idea / William J. Connell
• "Civic Humanism" And Medieval Political Thought / James M. Blythe
• Civic Humanism And Florentine Politics / John M. Najemy
• The Two Myths Of Civic Humanism / Mikael Hörnqvist
• Rhetoric, History, And Ideology : The Civic Panegyrics Of Leonardo Bruni / James Hankins
• De-Masking Renaissance Republicanism / Alison Brown
• Civic Humanism, Realist Constitutionalism, And Francesco Guicciardini's Discorso De Logrogno / Athanasios Moulakis
• Bruni And Machiavelli On Civic Humanism / Harvey C. Mansfield
• Rhetoric, Reason, And Republic : Republicanisms-- Ancient, Medieval, And Modern / Cary J. Nederman
• Situating Machiavelli / Paul A. Rahe.

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ISBN

9780511558474 (ebook)

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